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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend, Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.
  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered a masterpiece of American literature, and was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.
  Among the most significant works by Mark Twain: "On the Decay of the Art of Lying", "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today", "The Prince and the Pauper", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", "The American Claimant", "Pudd'nhead Wilson", "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc", "A Horse's Tale", "The Mysterious Stranger", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Tom Sawyer Abroad", "Tom Sawyer, Detective", "Schoolhouse Hill", "The Mysterious Stranger", "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians", "Huck Finn", "Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy",  "Tom Sawyer's Gang Plans a Naval Battle".

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  The Fan Letter Bride

  Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns

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  Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns (May 20, 1894 - August 10, 1988) was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter for silent movies. She is best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as "The World's Greatest Girl Reporter" in the 1920s and 30s, and her celebrity interviews for Photoplay magazine.

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  A Jury of Her Peers - or "Trifles"

  Elizabeth Glaspell

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  Adapted from her one act play, "Trifles" (1916), A Jury of Her Peers is based on a murder case Glaspell covered as a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News. Largely ignored upon its initial publication, it was revived by feminists in the 1970s. A Jury of Her Peers is an innovative exploration of the inequalities of women’s lives in the public and private spheres. 
   
  Dealing with themes of the male subjugation of women, sexism at home and the workplace, and the ways the law fails to protect women from violence, Glaspell’s tale remains hauntingly relevant after 100 years.

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  The Jew - Turgenev's...

  Ivan Turgenev

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  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 in Oryol, Russia to parents from the nobility.  He and his two brothers were raised by their mother on the family estate.  Surrounded by foreign governesses he became fluent in French, German, and English.  Their father spent little time with them and this undoubtedly had an effect on him and his brothers.  When he was nine the family moved to Moscow to give their children a better education. 
   
  Turgenev studied for a year at the University of Moscow and then at the University of St Petersburg to study Classics, Russian literature, and philology.  During that time his father died from kidney stone disease.  In 1838 Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin for 3 years before returning to St Petersburg for his master's. 
   
  He started his career with the Russian Civil Service and it was only in 1852, after several earlier publications, that he made his name with his short story collection, ‘A Sportsman's Sketches’, based on his observations of peasant life and nature. 
    
  That same year he wrote an obituary for Nikolai Gogol: "Gogol is dead!... What Russian heart is not shaken by those three words?... He is gone, that man whom we now have the right (the bitter right, given to us by death) to call great."  The St Petersburg censor banned publication but the Moscow censor allowed it.  He was dismissed but Turgenev was held responsible and imprisoned for a month, and then exiled to his country estate.  
   
  Along with many other intellectuals Turgenev left Russia and settled in Paris in 1854.  During this period he wrote his finest stories and four novels.  
   
  Alexander II ascended the Russian throne in 1855, and the political climate relaxed.  Turgenev returned home.  
   
  ‘Fathers and Sons’, Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel, appeared in 1862. Its leading character is considered the first ‘Bolshevik’ in Russian literature. But the hostile reaction prompted Turgenev's decision to again leave Russia.  
   
  His health declined during his later years.  In January 1883, an aggressive malignant tumor was removed but by then it had metastasized in his upper spinal cord, causing him intense pain in his final few months of life.  
   
  Ivan Turgenev died on 3rd September 1883 of a spinal abscess, a complication of the metastatic liposarcoma, in his house near Paris.  He was buried in St Petersburg.  
   
  In ‘The Jew’ Turgenev explores a subject that is often treated abrasively by Russian authors.  In this heartbreaking tale an officer is begged by a Jew to help him.  He is even prepared to offer, with tragic consequences, a young girl as part of the bargain.

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  North and South

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell is a novel set in the mid-19th century, exploring the clash between the industrial North and the agricultural South of England. The story follows Margaret Hale, a young woman from the South who moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North with her family after her father resigns from his position as a parson due to a crisis of faith. The novel explores themes of social inequality, class conflict, and the changing landscape of 19th century England. Through Margaret and John's relationship, Gaskell portrays the need for understanding and compromise between opposing factions, and the potential for personal growth and transformation in the face of challenging circumstances.

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  Pranks, adventures, fence painting, and murder— young Tom Sawyer and friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher encounter all of this and more in a small river town in the pre-Civil War South. Ever the mischief-maker, Tom is often on the wrong side of the rules at school and at home, under the watchful eye of his Aunt Polly. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a world of summertime and hooky, of pranks and punishments, of villains and adventure, making for a uniquely entertaining adventure story for young and old alike.

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